My fantastic year in year 4

Today I'm going to talk to you about my school year in year 4. At the begining  of the year well close to the begining of the year Room 30 started to create a blog which of corse you know of because you are reading it right now, but at the begining of the year the blog was only one page long and as you can see it is way longer now! [It wasn't as interesting as it is now by the way!]

A few weeks later in the year we learnt about plants and propagation. We planted our own bean seeds and we watered them and gave them plenty of sunlight. They grew so big that some of them are 80cm tall! Then we took our plants home and we are all looking after them thanks to Mrs Paige for teaching us how to plant and grow our beans.

Then a few weeks later some students from Botany collage came to our school and taught us how to play sports such as Netball, Basketball, Rugby, Soccer, and Hockey. We had so much fun that sports were the highlight of our day!

Round about in the middle of term one we went on a trip to the Te Tuhi art gallery in Pakuranga.  We saw lots of interesting sculptures of different shapes and sizes. There was one particular sculpture that caught our attention it was made of full of steel and it was painted with bright and beautiful colours and it was in the shape of a rectangle turned upwards so it looks like it is standing up. We also went on a trip to the Botanic Gardens it was full of pretty flowers and tall grass that for the ants it seems like Mount Everest. There was a place in the gardens that was for kids and it had a gigantic birds nest that you could go inside and pretend that you are a baby bird waiting for its mother in the slow soft cool wind. There was also a place which looked like a playground but its actually a cacti garden with lots of fact cards and information about the plants.

On ANZAC day we made ANZAC biscuits with rolled oats, honey, cinnamon, sugar, and flour. We baked it in the oven at 180 degrees. Then we did the best job test tasting them, they were incredibly tasty. We each had about three biscuits each!

Did you know that Point View has been on televison? Well it has and it has been   amazing to know that some people know what Point View school is and how much fun we have at school. For example we had orca mufti day and the news arrived at our school to film what we were doing. The camera guy bought one of our delicious and wonderful looking cupcakes!

In term two we went to the Auckland Art gallery in the city. We got there by bus it was very exciting. When we got bored we played hand games like I dare you and tic tac toe and paper scisiors rock. When we got to the art gallery my group went upstairs. Upstairs there was a room that was made of glass and hanging on the ceiling were gigantic flowers that every minute opened up really quickly.

One day Mrs Rivett came to visit us in our class room to teach us how to post comments on other peoples blog like our quadblogging buddies if you go to the bottom of the log page you will see the names of other schools in America.

In technology we made some special diggers that aren't  like the ones that you buy at the warehouse it is much better and it isn't for three year olds it fits anyone even adults.

Later in the year a nice lady named Miss Bristoe came to help us get better at learning. She helped us with a-lot of thing such as math, handwriting, writing, spelling, art and she played bash with us. Miss Bristoe is lovely she helped us and she was thinking of becoming a teacher we all hope that she gets the job!

We made some beautiful calenders. We made them by making a picture of a taniwha and then coloured them in with dy! then when we were finnished we let them dry, after a few days of hard work we gave our artwork to Miss Lankow and she gave them to the princibal and the princibal gave them to a calender company! Then we had to wait untill August to get them back but when we got them back they weren't just artwork they were fantastic calenders!

We have done a-lot more if you want to look at more of our amazing year go to the Point View school website.

By Jessica

Orca mufti day

Did you know that Point View School  is the only school in New Zealand that celebrates Orca Mufti Day? We have this fun and exciting day thanks to Miss Norton in Room 6.

Miss Norton loves orca so when an orca is stranded or in trouble she organises a fundraiser so that the orca can be set free into the wild. Point View School has Orca mufti every second year to celebrate the orca and to appreciate Miss Norton and all the hard work that she has done with our school. 

On Orca day we dress up in black and white and we also sell cookies in the shape of an orca with black, white and blue for the sea. We also have Orca decorated cupcakes with lots of icing. This time we have sea spray candy and stingray liver which sounds gross. I mean the liver. We also have face painting, raffles, custom made photos of Ingrid the orca saver, and much more.

All of Point View is really proud of Miss Norton and lots of other people in New Zealand are proud of Miss Norton too because she was one of  30 New Zealand teachers in the 2012 teachers choice awards. We are extremely proud of Miss Norton for the many things that she has done.

Ice-skating

On Thursday the  15th of November point view school had a girls only night at paradise ice-skating.

All the girls had to dress up really warm because when you went into the ice-skating rink it was like you are on bare snow.

 When I  got there I had to get my skates on because it would be very cold and difficult to do it with bare feet! After I put my skates on I went on the ice, it was very tricky to try and skate when I haven't skated in a whole month.

 A few minutes past  and I finally  got the hang of it, but now that I got the hang of things I had to find my friends but it's hard to find all of them because they are all so fast. When I found one of my friends I got faster and faster until I was so fast I could catch up to all of my friends.

An hour later I started to get cold so I went to the cafe and bought a cup of hot milk.

When the ice-skating finished I got a Hot Dog for dinner then I went home. 

Holidays

In the school holidays I'd like to go to Australia: To go to all the fun places like dream world and sea world!


In the school holidays I'd like to go roller skating with my friends: To enjoy some time with them and to have loads of fun!


In the school holidays I'd like to go on the worlds fastest water slide: Just for fun!


In the school holidays I'd like to make a world record: So I can be on the Genius book of world records


But those are just ideas for all I need is the television remote and some popcorn :-)

Point View's Hive

  Today I am going to talk about our school hive. Ok so when I say"school hive" you would think that
  it's like a beehive or something, but it's actually a place where you can take care of plants and when
  they become quite big you can propagate it. You can also learn how to grow plants without the soil!
  in the hive there is a big sandpit to play in, the hive also has a big maze that you can go through, thou
  the trees around it is not that big because the trees were only planted last year.

My Dad.

Dad you're awesome dad you're sweet,

Dad you're kind, so you love me,

You make me laugh you make me cry,

You're cooking not great but still so divine,

I don't know what I'll do without you,

I'd scream I'd shout without a doubt,

I love you dad so much,

so you deserve everything this fathers day 

[P.S Wait till fathers day for your 

       present and please don't search my 

       room!]

The PVS Middle school Choir

On the 27th of April the PVS middle school Choir performed in front of the whole school in Assembly.We sung Colour My World because that was our favourite song out of all the song there were.We were told to go to school at 8:30am sharp so we could practice the song.We practiced the song many times to warm up our vocal cords. Finally the Assembly began and we were all nervous and excited ,and then it was our turn to sing our song.This was our time to face our fares and sing in front of public. Once we started we sounded a bit quiet and then we got louder when we were closer to the end. Once we finished  audience clapped for us while we got of the stage, and we smiled with pride and we lived happily ever after sorry I mean and we were proud of ourselves forever.

Anzac biscuits

On Tuesday the 24th of April 

We made some Anzac biscuts and we are here to tell you all about it.

to make Anzac biscuits you will need :

1/2 cup of champion standard grade flour

1/2 cup of sugar

3/4 cup of coconut 

3/4 cup of fleming rolled oats

75g of butter

1 tablespoon of golden syrup

1/2 teaspoon of edmonds baking soda

2 tablespoons of boiling water 

                           

and that is ingredients you need to make Anzac biscuts

mix together the flour, sugar, coconuts and rolled oats. Melt the butter and golden syrup. 

Dissolve  the baking soda in the boiling water and add it to the butter and golden syrup .

Stir the butter mixture into the dry ingredients . Place level teaspoons of mixture onto cold

greased trays . Press out with a fork bake at 180‘c for about fifteen minutes or until golden 

makes 18.

HANDY HINT

Use the rest of the fleming rolled oats to make a delicious porridge for breakfast . Its quick and easy to make just 2-3

minutes in the microwave and you can add yummy toppings like 

bananas and brown sugar,fresh fruit,yogurt, or your favourite nuts . Don't forget  breakfast is the most important meal of the day !!!!